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Help raise awareness for the important work you and your colleagues are doing to help improve maternal health outcomes leveraging health information technology.

After 12 years of serving as Vice President of IHE USA and a member of its board, Steve Drew, Assistant Executive Director of Meetings and Convention Services, Informatics at RSNA, has retired from his duties as of January 1, 2022.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced the Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE) USA Cooperative Agreement Notice of Funding Opportunity. The Cooperative Agreement will support advancements in the technical standards necessary to achieve interoperability among health IT systems and to reach the milestones identified in the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap and in support of the Cures Act.

The IHE Devices domain is excited to announce the approval of two NEW IHE Profile Brief Proposals! Check them out!

For the past seven years, the annual HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey has tracked trends and best practices in healthcare privacy and security. The new survey was just launched this week, and HIMSS wants to hear from you.

IHE Catalyst will work actively and support IHE Connectathons worldwide and will drive investments on the IHE Gazelle testing management platform and testing tools together with major tooling contributors such as Kereval, NIST, ArtDecor, MITRE/Inferno, PCHA etc

To ensure a successful, healthful, and safe new year for the entire IHE Connectathon community, IHE USA will be hosting its in-person North American Connectathon in the late summer/early fall of 2022, with an announcement of date and location announced in early Spring.

The Call to Action consists of five key global policy strategic actions and seeks stakeholders across the globe to advocate for these health IT policies to ensure a safe, flexible, standards-based health information data ecosystem can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and future global health emergencies.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released this past July the United States Core Data for Interoperability version 2 (USCDI v2), a standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange.

In honor of Bill’s memory, IHE USA has renamed its Interoperability Research Award Program as the Bill Majurski Interoperability Research Award Program so others that follow on the path he blazed will follow his lead and work to improve health information exchange. Since 2007, IHE USA has provided scholarship awards to support entrepreneurs, researchers, public health agencies, and health system developers that seek to participate in the IHE North American (NA) Connectathon. Future recipients of the Bill Majurski Interoperability Research Award will receive similar funding to cover their participation fees. Through this renamed program, we commit to honoring Bill’s memory and his numerous contributions to IHE.

Five of the largest organizations in health IT join forces to advance interoperability, collaboration

There are more than a dozen IHE profiles that support various capabilities often used by Health Information Exchanges. Much of the associated content published by IHE is spread across multiple volumes of IHE Technical Frameworks and other supplemental material. To address this issue, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has commissioned IHE USA to publish "IHE Profiles for Health Information Exchange," by Keith Boone, ‎Informatics Adept at ‎Audacious Inquiry as a freely available resource for the health information exchange community.

The challenges created by a raging pandemic and our increasing need to easily access and exchange health information are rapidly expanding collaboration around the globe, providing an urgent call to action for those working on standards-based interoperability. The 2021 IHE North American Connectathon, occurring March 1-5, will be center stage for sharing insights gained by the remarkable work that is occurring globally to achieve our shared goal of widespread interoperability and health information exchange.

IHE USA recently submitted comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on the topic of patient identity and matching.